For some reason, the winter of Hongwu's first year was much colder than usual.

The surging water in the summer has already turned into a thousand miles of ice, and after a heavy snowfall, it seems that only black and white are left between the heavens and the earth.

Although the weather was bad, the construction outside Chang'an City was not delayed, but was much busier than before.

For the old Qi people in Chang'an City, the imperial court's project is a source of income for Wei himself in the winter, so that he will not let himself hold on to the harvest of the next season.

When it comes to their own affairs, they are all smart, and although they haven't learned multiplication formulas and don't know numbers, this doesn't prevent them from having a simple plan for the future.

Life in Chang'an City has become different from before, if people used to just eat to fill their stomachs, now more people have other pursuits.

For example, a spacious and warm house, ornaments in a woman's hair, and many other things that have little to do with survival.

The people of Chang'an City are eager for a richer material and spiritual life, but if they want to live a better life, they must work harder, and the goal of their efforts is to make money.

After such a long period of circulation, copper coins have become a necessity in the life of Qi State, although it is not difficult to move an inch without money, but it is still much more convenient to have money.

Although Yang Hao wanted to make the people rich, he did not encourage the development of commerce now, and he believed that business was only a good government based on the premise of a rich material base.

Otherwise, with the current material foundation of Qi State, it will not be able to form a complete business system at all, but it may make the people of Qi State become utilitarian and become all copper-smelling people who look at money and speculate.

That kind of result is not what Yang Hao wants to see, money is just a tool, and it is all kinds of materials that really determine people's living standards.

If Qi now has endless food and unused cloth, it may not be impossible for human society to leap into his hands.

But this kind of good thing can only be thought about, what he can do now is to constantly urge the people of Qi to work hard and constantly improve the various infrastructure of Qi country.

In this busy atmosphere, the old Qi people are much happier than those who have joined the new ones, and the Qi court still gives very generous treatment to the people who take the initiative to come to work, at least in Yang Hao's opinion.

In addition to getting more than ten copper coins a month, the old Qi people can also eat a full meal for free every day, while those newcomers who are forced to work are different, living in simple shacks outside the city, and the only way to keep warm is a group of people crowded in front of the fire, relying on the flame and the body temperature of their companions to fight against the bitter cold of this winter.

Yang Hao also wanted to be a good person, but the strength of the Qi State simply couldn't accommodate such a large population, he could provide these people with a full meal every day, and one porridge was already the limit of what he could do.

In order to stabilize these miserable laborers, Yang Hao drew a big cake for them, promised all kinds of benefits, and there were also ubiquitous Lao Qi people as a model among the people who worked.

For the time being, the mood of the workers was stable, at least there were no signs of riots.

If a person has hope, he will reduce a lot of trouble for himself, and the most terrible thing is to kill all people's hopes, and only he will die in the end.

Yang Hao agrees with his philosophy of life, in his eyes, those slave owners are the kind of people who take chronic poison, and the number of slaves in this era far exceeds that of those slave owners who are rulers, under this kind of high-pressure policy, sometimes it only takes a small spark to ignite the anger of the slaves.

As long as this anger spreads among all the slaves, the end of the slave owners will come, but the probability of this happening is too low.

However, Yang Hao, who knows a little about the trend of history, knows that the change of the human social system sometimes does not overthrow one class of another, at least he has not heard of any civilization in ancient and modern China and abroad that succeeded in slave rebellion.

Most of them are because of the development of productive forces, slowly through top-down changes.

If Qi can succeed in having the last laugh, maybe he will set a precedent for the historical direction of this time and space, a miracle from slave to emperor.

In the winter of Qi State, whether it is ordinary people or dignitaries, and even Yang Hao, as the supreme leader, are rolling up their sleeves and working hard, contributing their own strength to their own lives and the development of the country.

When Yang Hao's current status comes, he naturally doesn't have to do those manual jobs himself.

His daily task is to deal with the work reported by officials, and after establishing a slightly improved civil service system, Yang Hao is now a lot easier.

The affairs of the junior officials do not need to be reported to him, he only needs to be responsible for dealing with the aggregation of those ministers.

Yang Hao, who is idle, spends most of his time in winter writing and painting.

Of course, his writing, painting and painting are not to make some artworks such as flowers, birds, fish and insects to cultivate sentiment, but to enrich the content of heavenly creations.

The previous Wu Beizhi is now also included in Yang Hao's Tiangong Kaiwu as a separate classification.

He wants to complete a book of ancient wonders, the culmination of ancient wisdom.

In this book of heavenly creations, Yang Hao divided it into eight categories, such as armament, construction, water conservancy, mineral deposits, agriculture, animal husbandry, smelting, and people's livelihood.

And under each of the major categories, there are many smaller categories.

This is a huge project, and Yang Hao feels that he will not be able to complete it in his lifetime.

However, Yang Hao is not greedy, as long as he sets this precedent and continues to improve from generation to generation, sooner or later this encyclopedia of Qi will be all-encompassing and benefit mankind.

It is even possible that the natural sciences of later generations will be changed because of their first book in the history of human civilization.

Yang Hao didn't know what the future of this era would become, and now, several whiteboards in his study were densely painted with patterns and mathematical formulas.

Putting down the charcoal pen, Yang Hao was pleased to see the results of his hard work for a long time.

This is a sketch of a loom, the low textile efficiency of this era simply could not meet Yang Hao's needs, according to the principle of women's weaving, combined with the only impression of the loom in his mind.

It took Yang Hao months of exploration and practice to finally complete the loom that looked slightly perfect, and named it Hongwu Yifeng Loom.

However, although the Hongwu loom he designed can be several times higher than the current textile effect of Qi State, he knows that this is not the apex of ancient textile efficiency, and he knows very well that there is a loom called Jenny loom, which can be said to have reached the peak of human weaving before the Industrial Revolution.

It's just that Yang Hao doesn't have such profound mechanical attainments, and he can't make that kind of anti-heaven product, so he can only hope to improve the Hongwu style little by little in the future.